Edgar Romero was killed in a shooting early Monday in the Gage Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
The 38-year-old got out of a vehicle he was driving about 1:45 a.m. in the 2700 block of West 51st Street, then got into an altercation with two male passengers, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Romero was beaten, and then one of the passengers then took out a gun and shot him in the head, authorities said.
The two passengers then got back into the car and drove away southbound.
Romero, who lived in the West Side North Lawndale neighborhood, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:21 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.
An autopsy Tuesday found he died of multiple gunshot wounds, and multiple blunt force injuries from an assault, according to the medical examiner’s office. His death was ruled a homicide.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help with funeral expenses for Romero, a father of two girls.
The author of the page wrote: “Edgar Romero was son, brother, uncle and father of two beautiful girls whom he left behind.” She said Ropmero, who worked as a barber and DJ, “was always smiling, joking, and specially always full of live. Never turn his back on no one. He trust turned into tragic…”
No one was in custody as of Tuesday morning.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire